Fondazione Ermanno Casoli (FEC) was founded in 2007 to honor Elica – a global leader company that used to produce hoods for household use– founder memory. It aims at fostering the relation between art and industry, by promoting initiatives in which contemporary art turns into an educational and methodological tool, contributing to improve working spaces and innovation processes.

FEC has pioneered the investigation on the link between art and industry. It is now a cutting-edge reference model in the field of managerial education through contemporary art: as a matter of fact, it has been proposing more and more structured and specialized activities, which connect these two spheres by encouraging the mutual respect of their relevant goals.

President

Cristina Casoli

Cristina Casoli was born in Senigallia and studied in Fabriano, where in 1972 her father Ermanno founded Elica, a global leader company for the production of hoods for household use. In 2007, she strongly supported Fondazione Ermanno Casoli establishment, which is a foundation dedicated to her early belated father, and actively participated in it as main counselor. In 2016 she was appointed President and continued to support FEC’s main goal with dedication: contamination between contemporary art and the business sector, led by passion and understanding of the value that culture has as a socio-economic development trigger and by the affection for the family company.

Director

Viviana Cattelan

Viviana Cattelan

Artistic director

Marcello Smarrelli

Marcello Smarrelli graduated in Art History and specialized in contemporary art. He has been professor of Art History and Design History at La Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Architecture. He collaborated with the main sector magazines (Tema Celeste, Flash Art, Exibart, Artribune). He curated several public art projects and exhibitions in public and private venues; he was jury member or president of various awards for contemporary art. Since 2007 he has been art director at Fondazione Ermanno Casoli, since 2011 at Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, since 2015 Visiting Curator at Fondazione Memmo Arte Contemporanea and since 2016 Consultant for modern and contemporary art at Comune di Pesaro.